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May
16

State OK’s sale of former community college campus

May 16th, 2013

Fosters

CONCORD — The New Hampshire Executive Council Wednesday approved the sale of the former campus of Great Bay Community College to Juliet Marine Systems, Inc. for a purchase price of $2.75 million.
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May
15

Database-as-a-service Cloudant nabs $12M from Devonshire, Rackspace, & more

May 15th, 2013

VentureBeat

Sean Ludwig

Hot database-as-a-service startup Cloudant has raised $12 million in its second round of funding, the company announced today.

Boston-based Cloudant was initially founded in Cambridge, Mas. in 2008 by three MIT physicists. The team struggled to move around multi-petabyte data sets and analyze those data sets wherever they went. So they ended up creating what would become Cloudant. (more…)

May
15

Cloudant raises $12m in funding for database as a service

May 15th, 2013

Zdnet
By Sam Shead

Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider Cloudant has received $12m (£7.8m) to help it set up new offices, employ more staff and bring its technology to new markets.

The Boston-based company announced on Tuesday that existing investors Avalon Ventures, In-Q-Tel and Samsung Venture Investment Corporation, had upped their shares in the company, while new investors Rackspace, Devonshire Investors, and Toba Capital also also added money to the pot. (more…)

May
06

Former Federated Media CEO Deanna Brown joins e-singles site Byliner as president

May 6th, 2013

paidContent

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Deanna Brown, who was the CEO of Federated Media, has joined e-singles startup Byliner as president, the company announced Thursday.

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May
06

Deanna Brown Named Byliner President

May 6th, 2013

mediabstro

By Jason Boog

Former Federated Media CEO Deanna Brown has been named the new president at Byliner. The company collects short stories and articles online, and also publishes digital shorts.

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